Urban Public Realm Consulting provides pre-develop-ment and post-development public open space site evaluation services. Our context-oriented approach applies specific design, development and management strategies to attract and encourage responsible and lively activity and counteract unanticipated elements in public use settings. Physical appearance, walkability, and meaningful combinations of cultural and civic features, market services and products, and recreation and leisure activities create the most enticing and dynamic public places. Sensitive management programs partnered with informal "place stewardship" can effectively safeguard public spaces as valuable community amenities. We provide site specific design and management strategies to achieve and maintain successful plazas, paseos, promenades, marketplaces, leisure spaces, and small parks, and specialize in the public use areas of mixed-use, transit-oriented, civic, leisure and retail projects. Urban Public Realm Consulting's site evaluation research and services are tailored to the needs of developers, design and landscape architecture firms, BIDs, area redevelopment agencies, property managers, local merchants, security specialists, town planners, and chambers of commerce. We help project stakeholders understand and support the most positive social activity and dynamics central to their interests. | --------------------- Public Spaces In the News: --------------------- |